Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She also serves as Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit, nonpartisan association of family researchers and practitioners based at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of 7 books on families, marriage, and gender relationships, she has published dozens of articles in the NYT and elsewhere, as well as in scholarly journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family. She is the recipient of CCF's first and only "Visionary Leadership Award," The Families & Work Institute's "Work-Life Legacy" Award, and other awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Illinois Council on the Family, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

In 1973, when President Richard Nixon proclaimed August 26 Women's Equality Day — commemorating the day in 1920 that women won the right to vote — a woman could still be denied housing by a real estate broker or credit by a bank, simply because of her gender.

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal this week, Ivanka Trump gave a robust defense of the Trump administration's proposed paid family leave program. The Journal's editorial board had denounced it as a government "entitlement" that "could create another disincentive for work and advancement."

Millennials, generally defined as people born between 1982 and 2000, were supposed to be the generation that forged what has been called "a new national consensus" in favor of gender equality. Indeed, in February the prominent Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs labeled the 2016 election, where an extremely qualified female candidate lost to a man with a history of disrespecting women, "a blip" on the road to the egalitarian society that will be achieved once millennial voters outnumber their conservative elders.

I first discovered "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" when I was 25, and I immediately fell in love with it. But a few years ago, when I showed some episodes to a family studies class I was teaching, my students were far less impressed than I had expected them to be.

The problems bothering white Americans without a college degree have less to do with immediate economic insecurity or material hardship, although those are widespread, than with the collapse of a whole way of life.

Nostalgia often arises out of a real experience of loss. It needs to be addressed and redirected, not ridiculed or denounced. And that applies to the nostalgia that motivates a considerable number of Trump supporters.

For all the hand-wringing about how we've never seen a presidential primary season like this before, in fact, it bears a remarkable resemblance to that of 1992.

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Stephanie Coontz - PopTech Talk
What makes an ideal marriage? Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies and author of "Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage," says that marrying for love is a radical idea.

When child care costs more than college
Last year child care cost more than the average in-state college tuition in 31 states, according to a report by ChildCareAware.org. Stephanie Coontz from the Council on Contemporary Families discusses.

How to lift women from poverty
An estimated 42M women in the country are living in poverty, and the average woman is paid 77 cents for every dollar the average man earns. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College discusses a new Shriver Report looking at women and poverty.

How poverty affects us equally
In the fight against poverty, supporting women in need can, in fact, help men as well. Stephanie Coontz joins to discuss how we must embrace this idea.

The role women play in the war on poverty
2014 marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty in his State of the Union address. This week, a groundbreaking investigation takes a look at poverty from a number of fronts, including economic inequality and how it correlates to the wage difference between men and women.

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